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Show very warm. The pain has gradually grown worse until at present there is little hope of his recovery. He has a large lamily five of whom are married. Iiro. Young has lived in Fairview for a great many years and has always been know as a hard-working inoffensive and good man. Time will not permit an account of all the deaths of the past two months as a great many little ones have been laid away whose deaths have beeu caused bv the scarlet fever. May the time soon come when health will take the place of disease in our midst is the sentiment of every heart. Will call again, but hope to be able to report all well next time. O FAIRVIEW AFFLICTED. Fairview, Jan. 15, 1891. Well, though we have been quiet for a lone time, we are not all dead yet, and besides that, we have kept up a steady thinking in hopes that time would pre- sent itself in whieh we could express our thoughts. We have had so much sickness sick-ness since the first of September, that it has been dreadlul to think about, to say nothing of expressing it to others. At piesent there is one corpse in town and three others very sick. The wife of Wm. F. Young, one of our merchants, passed away very suddenly Sunday night after an illness of but a few hours, ihe leaves a husband and seven children, besides a great circle of relatives and friends to mourn her loss. She would soon have added one more to the number num-ber of her children had her lite been spared. The husband and family have the sympathy ol the whole ward. Richard Giaham a brother to Mrs. Young who is now 011 a mission 111 Eneland will soon receive the terrible news ol the di ath of his two f.u.6 boys one fiv and the other two years old, ' and will hardly have time to breathe well till the news of the death of his ' .;.ir roaches him. His wife we are sister reacnes mm. m thankful to say is striving like a true heroine to bear up under the trials thus brought upon her uncomplainingly. lohn F. Young, a brother to VVm. if. is also lying at the point of death, and has been for some days. He has been troubled with a terrible pam in his head brought 0:1 by wetting it with cold j water three months ago when he was i - ' .'-vj-i'y-ivi |